Vineland revisited

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In einer eMail vom 24.04.01 11:18:13 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit schreibt 
philwise at paradise.net.nz:

> What they're negotiating seems to me to be pure GR's Cartel.  Each of the
>  previous totalitarian movements - Stalin's USSR, Hitler's Germany, Mao's
>  Revolutionary China - began with widespread popular support because of the
>  advances in quality of life they were supposedly going to achieve.  Each
>  needed huge numbers of people to achieve a genuine state of 
totalitarianism,
>  and each once they did this, began to devour their own population when an
>  outside enemy wasn't available or sufficient.  In addition, those who 
helped
>  establish and\or enable these totalitarianisms had no idea what they had
>  wrought.
The new totalitarism of market perhaps needs 20 % of the population. The 
"rest" is superfluous. This is the difference to former forms of totalitarism 
which neede mass movements for their success. 

Kurt-Werner Pörtner